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Big China order for Boeing

Boeing’s top sales executive for the Asia-Pacific region said Boeing is working on a deal with Chinese airlines to buy an additional 80 737s.

A firm contract could be wrapped up in time for an announcement when Chinese President Hu Jintao vists Seattle in April.

The Chinese government announced in late 2005 that airlines would buy 150 Boeing 737s. Seventy of those planes have alreday been ordered, with deposits paid by airlines. That leaves the remaining 80 jets to complete the 150-plane deal.

Larry Dickenson, senior vice president of sales for Asia-Pacific, told the Wall Street Journal at the Singapore Air Show that Boeing is now firming up orders for those remaning 80 planes

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